Altered wine decor

Hello!  I have a really fun project for you today and a great way to get a head start on making Christmas gifts.  Ugh! Yes, I said it....Christmas...and we haven't even got to Halloween yet, crazy, I know!  When I think of Prima Marketing products, altered projects immediately come to mind for me.  The Prima Forever Green I Want It All Bundle from FotoBella has so many fun embellishments that lend itself to such great creativity.  

I found a basic black wine cork holder at Big Lots and went away to work on it with the Forever Green Prima bundle.  There was a blank area at the front that allowed me to place the "it's the little things" title in the center of the piece.  

The flowers, stick pin embellishments and rhinestone gems are simply beautiful!

I tied some raffia at the bottom with a flower to add the finishing touch.

This will make such a great Christmas gift this year for a wine enthusiast.  Who doesn't love something fun and decorative for collecting corks?  Visit FotoBella.com to get your Prima Forever Green bundle and get started on a fun altered project of your own.

Hello!  I'm sharing my Tip Time Time Tuesday with Kiwi Lane Designs using Hemptique’s yarn and the Sweetheart accessory templates.  I'm showing how to use the templates in an altered project and to matte a photo.  

For Hemptique, I chose to work with the yarn because I knew immediately what I was going to make, a Dreamcatcher!  

To start, I took a small embroidery hoop and wrapped it with white Hemptique yarn.  I then made the web of the dream catcher with the orange Hemptique yarn.  To figure out how to make the web, I looked it up on You Tube of course!  Here is the video tutorial I used:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlvYbLIXkRU

To decorate the dreamcatcher I cut out feathers from patterned paper in Fancy Pant’s What A Wonderful Day collection and attached them with yarn and beads.  

I used the Kiwi land designer templates to matte the photo I wanted to use on the dreamcatcher.  I added some flair and some beads for the finishing touch. 

Templates Used:

Sweetheart 2 & 3

Now I'm off to hang this in my daughter's room :)